CIA Director John Ratcliffe accused the journalist from The Atlantic who wrote a piece about top Trump officials communicating over a Signal chat group that inadvertently included him of lying in his report.
Ratcliffe made the remarks during testimony in front of the House Intelligence Committee alongside FBI Director Kash Patel, National Security Agency Director Gen. Timothy Haugh, and Defense Intelligence Agency Director Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Kruse.
“My responsibility as CIA Director, one of its responsibilities is to kill terrorists, and that’s exactly what I did along with President Trump’s excellent national security team,” he said. “That’s what we should be focused on.”
Ratcliffe said that one of the major issues with the article was how it falsely suggested things that never happened.
“I spent four hours answering questions from Senators as a result of that article that…
